Two smugglers meet two customs officers at sea, and happen to kill them. The story continues fifteen years later when a son of one of the officers and a smuggler's daughter fall in love with each other.

　　Six Characters is possibly the most highly anticipated Thai film this year, not least of all for its star-studded cast. On a shooting set filled with tension, a nervous director (Mario Maurer) tries to shoot a horror movie. The willful cast of actors is no help. Meanwhile, six strangers suddenly appear who tell their story, explaining that they are the characters of the script left by a dead screenwriter. The director laughs at the strangers at first but eventually begins to get carried away by the compelling family story they tell. Director M.L. Bhandevanov Devakula, who also visited Busan in 2011 with Eternity, is a director who is talented depicting eroticism with intense emotions as well as adaptation as in the Jan Dara series. Six Characters, an adaptation of Italian playwriter Luigi Pirandello′s Six Characters in Search of an Author, spotlights the director’s strengths and vision.

以色列游泳界冉冉升起的新星埃莱斯，背负着家人的期待，来到位于荒漠的泳训营，与来自各地的选手，角逐代表以色列出征奥运的唯一门票。在那里，他认识了俊俏又充满天分的奈福，两人亦敌亦友，既是竞争关系，又被他深深吸引，淋浴间的赤裸相对，更唤起他隐藏很久的潜在欲望。教练不断警告他：赛事前无友谊。繁忙的练习，加上天人交战的心意，决赛之日即将到来，埃莱斯决定跟随着自己感觉采取行动，他了解，赢得奖牌，或许不如赢得奈福的心。

An insane man first loves then grows to hate his neighbor, an old man whose penetrating gaze unnerves the insane man. He plans a perfect crime and executes it one night. The next day, two officers knock on the insane man's door, investigating a shriek heard in the night. The insane man invites them in, answers their questions, and submits to an examination of his eyes by one of the officers, who proclaims him innocent. The insane man invites them to stay and relax awhile, then regales them with his theories of crime. His heart begins to beat louder. Angles on the set are skewed to suggest the man's internal disarray.